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Delaporte

Delaporte is an R package which provides the probability mass, distribution, quantile, random variate generation, and method of moments parameter estimation functions for the Delaporte distribution. As the distribution does not have a closed form, but requires summations or double summations to calculate values, the functions have been programmed in Fortran and C. In cases where approximations are sufficient, the quantile and random variate generator have the option to use a much faster Poisson-negative binomial estimate as opposed to the full Delaporte double summations.

Citation

If you use the package, please cite it as:

Avraham Adler (2013). Delaporte: Statistical Functions for the Delaporte Distribution. R package version 8.0.2. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5880051 https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=Delaporte

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is:

  @Manual{,
    title = {Delaporte: Statistical Functions for the Delaporte Distribution},
    author = {Avraham Adler},
    year = {2013},
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.5880051},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=Delaporte},
    note = {R package version 8.0.2},
  }

Acknowledgements

The author is grateful to Drew Schmidt both generally for his writings on R, C++, and Fortran and specifically for help with this project.

Contributions

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Versioning

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Changelog

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Dependencies

This project intends to have as few dependencies as possible. Please consider that when writing code.

Style

Please review and conform to the current code stylistic choices (e.g. 80 character lines, two-space indentations, etc.).

Documentation

Please provide valid .Rd files and not roxygen-style documentation.

Tests

Please review the current test suite and supply similar tinytest-compatible unit tests for all added functionality.

Submission

If you would like to contribute to the project, it may be prudent to first contact the maintainer via email. A request or suggestion may be raised as an issue as well. To supply a pull request (PR), please:

1. Fork the project and then clone into your own local repository
2. Create a branch in your repository in which you will make your changes
3. Push that branch and then create a pull request

At this point, the PR will be discussed and eventually accepted or rejected.